Laying by corn....Why I didn't marry that city girl
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2018
- In today's farm vlog I'll show ya how laying by corn....in other words how we make our southern style corn and preserve it to eat all winter. I'll also share a funny story about why I didn't marry that city girl! Hope all enjoy and learn something in today's vlog!
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Bwahaha. I went to an aunt's house when I was a kid, and was eating cherries like no tomorrow off her tree. Until my uncle told me they were full of worms. I started opening them all up after that, and sure enough! They all had maggots in them. I decided I had enough cherries for the day. Ha ha
LOL they're darn good!! Taste like cherries with a little twist!
Good protein source.
Stoney Ridge Farmer why did the cherries have worms in them?
I’ll bet you were doing the green corn two-step after eating that many cherries!
You didn’t taste the worms till you saw them. Shows what the mind does.
I like the Peaches and Cream corn variety
Josh, when I saw you was about to use the tool for the cream corn. My first thought was, that is like the one we have. It works great, you just need to know how. If you put in in the pail you was cutting the corn into, and stand it on it's end so you can push the corn firmly against it, it will work. I even made a wooden stand for ours so you can set a big bowl under it. The corn needs to be pushed firmly against it, so it has to be in a bucket or something for one end to rest against while you push hard on the corn. I think with more than one try you'll get the hang of it. It is wise to do it outside as you were doing, because it does splatter everywhere. Don't give up on it yet, until you try a couple more times, it works and it's faster too, and it really save scraping the cream off the cob, it does it all in 1 stroke.
Thanks for taking me back 45 years to putting up corn at the beginning of summer. As the little kids would start at the bottom of the line just being able to shuck and silk. The first year I was old enough to cut the corn off the cobs I sliced across three of my fingers which my dad calmly replied “Stop bleeding in the corn” Love the channel keep it up.
I like placing the corn upright in the hole of a cake bunt pan and then slicing the kernels off. They fall right into the pan and keep your fingers safe.Thanks for the video!
That’s the same way we do in Georgia and with a electric filet knife. Sure saves time
Born in NYC raised in the suburbs of New Jersey LOVE your channel and way of life ...thanks for sharing....
Corn silk is lubricating for the urinary tract, nature's help to pass kidney stones. Love the de-silking brush! Genius!
Now ya went and done it Josh... ya showed me your silver queen corn patch and my mouth is just a watering now!! i love silver queen corn even right off the stalk ! Yummmmmmmm.
Mine too!!!
tip: put your un-shucked cob in hot water, after a minute, chop the stem end off w/ a big knife (include 1/2 inch kernels) squeeze the cut end and the clean cob should pop out, almost silk free.
Nice video, as kids growing up on a hog farm in NW Indiana we always canned and froze vegetables for the year. We still to this day freeze sweet corn I think we bagged 60 quarts for our family this year. Fresh sweet corn every year in freezer along with a whole hog and half a beef knowing where your food is coming from and how it was raised is good for the soul. Keep the great videos coming.
Thanks again.
Jeffrey Misch
Hey josh I love your videos, I'm first generation American , my dad was from the Azores and my mom the main land of Portugal , both from small farm village community's , man the story's I could tell you about growing up with there traditions. Anyway keep up the great videos
Josh i have seen people that prefer cutting the corn your way. But I find the corn tool faster and easier and faster.Try placing it horizontally across the top of the pot or pan then run it across the blade to cream the corn bring it back in the opposite direction. My family use to process corn in the beginning of July. We had friends who's family raised corn in Lumberton, NC. Several of us would go and pick the corn in the morning Then drive back th Columbia, SC. Meet up with the rest of the family usually around 9 or 15 of us. WE would get a assembly line going. We would shuck. silk, blanch, then take some of the ears and package it for freezing. One or two of the older ladies would do it your way and several would do it with the corn tool. It would take all day and we would be finished right around dark. But we would process enough corn for several families fer the winter. I don't remember the kind of corn because the farmers would always tell us they would order it by a number. But is was sweet and had big kernels. It was the best corn you would ever want to eat. The tools had to be kept sharp and the only time we would use them were for this process so they were usually cleaned and dried real good then hidden somewhere out of sight and reach. We lost several until I started placing them way up high where no one but my brother and I could even see them ( we are the tallest in the family). Just take it easy and don't get in to much of a hurry because the tool can cause a pretty good cut in your finger. Thanks for bringing back a lot of good memories.
Josh your living the Dream Pal...I know its been hardwork, but keep up vlogs you inspire us.
Thanks Shawn!
Lol! You NEVER get old!
When I was young my grandfather took care of my uncle's farm. When he planted corn he did one pass with the planter, I wood think it planted 12 rows of corn at a time. Then he left a space big enough to drive a pickup and planted again. He drove the truck at harvest and we had lots of family loading that truck. Everybody shucked corn that night and they par boiled and bagged corn on the cob the next day.
That was interesting. Never knew how my grandmother made it. Never to old to learn something. Yes it may be cheaper in stores but farm fresh is the best.
Thank you for doing this video. It brings back a lot of fond memories of my youth.
My family and I have bought a small 2 acre farm and are working towards being self sustaining to a point. This will definitely help us at next harvest time.
You are very welcome!
My mom makes the best creamed corn.. she does it all by hand, and it's amazing to watch how much time she puts in into something so simple..
Great info and video Josh.
Lol! Josh! This was great! Loved your story! We use our food saver all the time. They are awesome! Thank you for making corn cob prep so interesting and funny! Not only was I glued to the TV but I watched all the way until the end! Lol! Wooooo!
Glad you enjoyed it...man I try so hard to make things fun and interesting
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer You always do a great job! I mean really I watch every video and am learning, laughing and loving the knowledge you share with us. You are much appreciated!
Looks like dent corn we grow here for cattle. Super interesting different regions and different corn. Thanks for posting the video. Love following.
We plant two rows then 3 weeks later, two additional rows.. That way we get two separate harvests and the time to deal with the picking and storing.. We freeze about 3/4 of the harvest, dehydrate the rest for long term storage.
We used to use a gadget like that when I was a kid. A firm grip on the corn ,steady pressure, & quick passes across the tool, & it worked like a dream for us...
Awesome info!!!
The link to the food processor came up unavailable (from Amazon). But
Reading the comments, I decided I needed one after all... Caning is way too time consuming and I can always can should our power grid is hacked.
Love the comment about using the food saver for ammo!!
We use a upside down Bundt pan to scrape the corn into. The center of the pan holds the cob well! Great video Josh!
The peaches and cream corn is really sweet and juicy as well!
Thank you Josh again!
Josh, I am new to the channel, but are quite enjoying it....especially the "Squirrel" moments.....I have gotten away from freezing as I don't care for frozen corn. I also no longer small bag veggies, I freeze on cookie sheets and then bag in large bags as they don't get lost in freezer...I now hotwater bath it for 4 hours in pints...but will be using my pressure canner now....tastes like Green Giant niblets.
Weclcome to the channel
I really enjoyed this video, loved when you said “don’t cut your finger off you’ll need it for the rest of this job.” Also loved “I don’t enjoy watching TV anymore because all of the actors just like blowing stuff up and don’t like guns”
Enjoyed the video thank you
its a wonder he has any fingers left
Enjoy your videos.
Here in the UK I read a gardening magazine where the writer described how he put the water on to boil, ran out to the corn, cut it, and ran back to the pot with it. That has always been my perfect recipe for corn. Delish! Worms? Working on my allotment which bordered the road, I got a smirking woman taking the p*** out of me and scoffing the blackberries which grew along the fence. Didn't tell the silly twit they were always full of maggots ... Yummy in her tummy? Oh scrummy, dummy! LOL
Growing up, we had a 10 acre garden....and luckily a Allis Chalmers WD45 with a full compliment of attachments...in which we grew our entire year's worth of veggies. From red skin taters, to 4 types of corn, string beans, sweet taters, cabbage...you name it...we grew it. We would put corn up for winter much like you did in this video....pick it, shuck it, slice the kernels off the cob, and freeze it. In the middle of winter, that corn tasted just like a sunny day in July.
The way we froze our green beans...snap them, rinse them, put them into freezer bags, then fill the bags with water. Seal the bags tight and then into the deep freeze. The water would force the air out of the bags and insulate the beans from freezer burn. Thaw a bag, drain the water, rinse and cook. Again, in the middle of an Ohio winter, those beans tasted garden fresh.
We used to stop at a local farm in Baldwin County AL and get silver queen corn fresh!! We'd blanch the shucked/silted ears for about 3-4 mins in boiling water, allow to cool, and froze whole ears in ziplock bags! We had corn all winter long!
We always used a stiff bristled hair brush for silking. My family did this every year. I had an uncle that grew acres of silver queen and would give us truck loads of it and we would spend an entire Saturday shucking and silking while my mom and aunts would cut and bag or can it.
You know I don't say much but I have two things to say thanks for your honesty. I thought about telling some people they need to clean shave but thanks for doing that for me. 2 I always like the song that says if it's good enough for my grandmother if it's good enough for my mother if it's good enough for my family it's good enough for me. And that's all you did on the corn
everything tastes better when you make the effort
Corn silk is used as a medicine. Corn silk is used for bladder infections, inflammation of the urinary system, inflammation of the prostate, kidney stones, and bedwetting. It is also used to treat congestive heart failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, fatigue, and high cholesterol levels.
That is easier with a really sharp knife. My mom kept one knife, just for cutting the corn off the cobb. It was longer than a paring knife and she started at the end of the cob next to her and in one lice forward, would shave the top of the kernels. Knife was so sharp that there was no need to saw it, just push forward like shaving. My dad put an edge on knife like a scalpel lol After all the tops were sliced off, she scraped the cob and all the juice into the bowl. Her and my dad could clean a corn cob in just a few seconds. I do it the same way. Takes way longer to shuck and silk the corn than slice and scrape the corn off.
Corn stalks are easy to pull up. They're really shallow. Using the machete seems like a waste of time & effort - but have at it! We also used to harvest what was ready, and leave the rest for a few days to finish growing, and harvest the rest. But it's interesting to see how others do it. Thanks!
Due to the power going out often where I live, I can and dehydrate my corn instead of freezing it. I microwave it or boil it for a few minutes and then throw it into the sink with ice water. Cut off the big end, squeeze and it will pop out leaving all the silks behind. Then I cut it off the cob with a corn cutter, which is a round thing that fits around the whole cob, or I use my mandolin slicer. I'll milk the cobs after they all are cut, jar the corn, add salt and water and process in a pressure canner. Keeps for years, and my city slicker step daughters will fight over who gets the most!
Boy, does that bring back memories.
My goats would be in heaven with all those corn goodies.
My paternal grandmother had a corn cutter similar to that one, but, it had a curved on two sides. One cut creamed corn and the other cut whole kernel corn. She had had it for years before the 1950s and you could process a lot of corn with it. Oh as someone else said put the end of it against the bottom of the pot, use one hand to hold it and the other to push the cob down and it goes much easier and faster. It also works better if you use a large pan, like a buffet place would have salads in.
Sometimes those corn cutters can be a test of patience LOL
Easiest way to freeze sweet corn is to square off the ends and put the ears husk and all in a gallon zip lock ! Taste like fresh picked up into March! Done it for years and learned it from a major hotel chef when I grew produce!! Dollar shave club is good stuff!
LOL DSC....wish it could make hair grow back on my head lol
Stoney Ridge Farmer Well now LOL!!
I have a very old cobbler mine has legs. I think you can get one like mine thru Lehman’s. My cobbler does save time. Greetings from Montana 🤠 Hey! I just watched you give moldy corn to your goats. Really, your going to give them a bad tummy. Bad goat Daddy.
We have a couple of those cutters... one is all stainless and works better than the wooden one. We put it in baking pan that is a few inches deep and empty as needed.
I'm doing something wrong! Gonna watch some vids today to get it right next time!
Good stuff enjoyed that
Planted yellow sweet corn this year, pulled it all up too after trying a couple meals of it (no one liked it) so I put late bush beans in that spot. Live and learn. Back to silver queen :-)
Josh,
We had tons of japanese beetles too this year. The stripped my roses, crape myrtles, and any other bushes with leaves and buds.
Dang..now I would have hit them with some Seven Dust for sure....we had to spray our fruit trees this year or they would have been killed....never seen so many !
Lay that wood gadget edge up in your pot and press the cobs downwards. The leverage you get from having it braced makes all the difference.
Thanks for the tip!
Yes. Support the end of the board vertically. Try it with the other plot :)
I was thinking the same thing regarding having the board supported firmly in the bottom of your pot. Just be careful with your fingers once you get going with that.
I use a similar device for taking corn off the cob after it has been cooked. The one I use is just a small plastic device about 5 or 6 in long that actually catches the corn in side of the device.
My parents and I usually end up with 100 quart bags of corn. We put the cob vertically on old baking pans and cut the kernels onto the pans.
One easy tip is to clean your stainless sinks well and rinse, then with a strainer in the sink, wedge the corn cutter in the center drain to hold it in place. Push corn downward to cut off cob and it falls into clean sink. Much like an immovable pot. With your height it would be simple for you with much leverage. But scrub the sink clean as a pot before you begin. Easy-peasy clean up too.
You really right I really wouldn’t see myself looking at a video of a person cutting corn
I like that you share. We give to local food bank.
Hi..... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
love your channel
"A bunch of stuff blownin up... with a bunch of actors that dont like guns." Bahahahahaha!!! Sad but true 😂
Total fact!!! Makes me sick to hear what Hollywood has to say about the "real world" ...the day I start listening to Brad Pitt about hunting is the day I sell the farm! Watched a video by Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam the other day ....he spoke of global warming and the enviroment in one sentence and then of the millions of batteries his band had been through in the next.....it's all MONEY MONEY MONEY!! GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE!!! Makes me sick!!
Been freezing cream corn for almist 70 years. My dad made the best tool we ever had.... a board with a large nail smack dab in the middle. Hammer a large nail (6 or more inchs ) into a very clean, washable board large enough to fit across your bowl. Please blanch and chill corn before cutting. Makes it safer for longer. Mount the center of the corn cob on the nail. Holds the cob steady. Then go around the cob first to cut the tips off, then go back and scrape out the mil ky juice. Not nearly s dangerous as your knife method. Stir to mix milk & kernals equally. Freeze as you normally do.
My corn is on the kitchen table, waiting for processing. Good timing! Thanks for the vid
when i was burning the midnight oil for a living i used to crack open a bag of frozen corn and dump a full bowl of them and add loads of butter and then nuke them for a snack, i would add some salt to taste, what a nice snack they were from the fresh farmed harvested corn
Josh, that tool only works well if you blanch the corn on the cob first, cool it down, then remove by propping one end of the tool into a large roaster pan which you hold with your left hand while shoving downward with the ear of corn in your right hand. (Reverse for lefties)
Another great vid. Wooo
Back in the 70.s My mom had one of those creamers , made out of stainless steel. worked like a charm
hey Josh, we used it and it worked great. I think it's the way your setting
I'm gonna try it again with the silver queen....lots of folks say they've had better luck than me...gonna give it another chance!
Just want to say that I have heard and practiced my entire life that you make 2 to 3 passes around the cob. Silver queen is the best and the only way to eat it is with biscuits. Made many a meals of that and fresh tomatoes. I do say sir you are a fine southern corn connoisseur! Couldn't have said it any better! Just the way granny taught me!
Dang josh, how time flies! It feels like you just planted that corn and now your harvesting it.
Man..it will be snowing soon!
And if you're going to eat it direct from the garden, microwave 2 or 3 ears 4 minutes per ear. Then cut the big end off while it is still hot and squeeze out the goodness. My second batch of corn which i planted with that earthway planter you reviewed is coming in now. Fresh corn tonight!
We now pressure can our corn. Put a thin tomato slice on top and can away. We've found no loss in taste, color or texture and tastes better than frozen corn.
We used to have a 26 cubic foot freezer, and we'd freeze our corn right on the cobs, unshucked. Worked amazing! You can (a) make creamed corned when they thaw, (b) make corn on the cob in the microwave without shucking first, or any way you would like! Try it sometime, much faster and works great! Wooooooo!
Thanks for the tip Mr. Hap!
Have you ever vacuum sealed whole ears with butter in the bag then you can boil in bag. That other tool you had makes good cream corn with it my local Agri supply had 1 I bought
Your corn gadget is made to put the bottom in a shorter pan. Rest one end on bottom of pan and push down and it will cut off the corn works good if used correctly
when using my corn scraper I put the bottom of the scraper in the pan and that holds it steady
Got 9 pints in the canner with another 9 to go. Cut ours off with a Billy Mays as seen on TV slicer, makes quick work out of two buckets of corn.
verry informative video ! lobe your videos
Mount one end of that tool you didn’t like and lay it across your kitchen sink. Will need to use contraptions to hold everything in place but then you can use two hands on the cob and it will work like a breeze.
Corn is some of what I want to grow and most people here who live in rural areas grow corn to feed their families, and we did too when growing up with our grandparents. Right now I am looking for a spot to put my garden and it won't be too large and corn will be on part of it. I will be growing peas, greens, squash, and egg plants in my garden.
I didn't know about cream corn, yummy.
Here in Iowa, we plant our sweet corn patch so we have fresh sweet corn for a couple months! Plant a 3 or 4 row block every week or two. This is so that you get proper pollination. Spread out over a couple months spreads out the harvest and you have two choices. Plant a big enough block of sweet corn so you can put up all your corn for the year all at once or plant so you can put up a little at a time.
When you use that there gadget, plant the darn thing so you aren't fighting it! Put it across your pot or pan and go to town! They really do work great!
The corn is ready to be picked when it is in the milk stage.
You can tell when this happens by feeling the end of an ear. If it's rounded or blunt rather than pointed, the ears are ready. The exposed silks also dry up at the end of the ear when the ears are almost ready to be picked.
Thanks for all the great tips brotha! Next year I'll do exactly what you are saying..and leave room to drive the gator through the middle
Hahah, love the bleep!😂 great video josh 👍🏻
Snuck that one in on ya huh...
Try augmented super sweets if you can not get your old school varieties picked and processed in a timely manner. They are much more forgiving.
Shucks, wooooooo
We loved-Bread & Butter sweet corn 🌽 🌾
I watched a couple of you videos today. You seem like a good guy. So, I'm subscribing today. I have quite a few subscriptions, and the youtube feed gets pretty clogged. I'm getting pretty selective these days. But... you got me when you said "a bunch of actors that don't like guns". Damn right.
Also what a peaceful life
I have just recently started processing my own food and I’m learning a lot from your channel. Now I noticed video is an older video and maybe you have changed things. But if you have not just to let you know I do vacuum sealing with my meats vegetables berries however I don’t use a food saver. I have a chambered vacuum sealer now granted this is about three times the price of a good food saver vacuum sealer. However in the long term it is significantly cheaper The bags for the chamber vacuum sealer was about five cents a bag I’m for the same size bag with the food saver bags it was working out about $.74 a bag overtime this is a significant saving specially if you process a lot of your own food. Also with the chambered vacuum sealer I am able to vacuum seal closed things like soup and stews in the bag or marinades with the meat with a lot of the food saver vacuum sealer‘s this is something you cannot really do. I also use my chambered vaccular for ceiling jars this way I don’t have to put them in a canner unable to vacuum seal rice pasta I do some of my preserves as well as I’ve stated the tool is a little more expensive but it is far more versatile. Some people ask me well what about if you want to see LO let’s say a full salmon the chain but vac sealer is not big enough well that’s when you take a food saver bag put your fish into it and believe it or not you can seal it from the outside just as if you were using a food saver vacuum sealer you’re able to do this with the chamber sealer. Now of course me writing this you may already have one but if not it might be something you might wish to look into.
Good times, great memories... Ong stories, lol. Thanks, got the same foodsaver, didn't know you could leave the door open. Will solve a bunch of frustrations. Couple of things, when I was young we planted a garden with a close friend of the family. Dad started a mess of seeds in a hothouse for spring & "Uncle Joe" had to plants ALL of them, not just strongest, but I digress. Uncle Joe planted 2 100' rows of corn, to which dad tryed to correct him... "Everyone knows ya plant corn in rows Kenny", to which dad just rolled his pipe to the other side of his mouth & shook his head. Growing up on a farm in the 1920's, he said quietly "no, you plant corn in fields...". Need less to say, the silk never got properly pollinated, so all his corn was poor at best. In small plots (we normally grew peaches & cream var.) We would harvest pollen, bread bags worked, then when right, shake, or brush, pollen back on to the ears. Seemed to work very well.
When cutting, used a few different tools, corn sticker to keep your fingers a bit farther away from ear, had a funny tool that wrapped around the ear like curved blades on pliers. But for the most part, just held the ear vertical & sliced down on to a cutting board.
Good vlog, definitely brought back memories. Thanks! & Keep your head high, great content & channel.
A bigger dishpan would work but you've got to lay it down in an angle and grip it with your other hand to keep it from moving put one in in the pan the other end up on the edge and push down
Good video! Just drove thru NC, I was hopping to see the Stoney ridge van on the highway, nothing yet 😜😀
LOL....yeah...I'm pretty much only leaving the farm if my wife tells me too or I need parts and supplies lol
a small roasting pan put you wood corn tool in at angle and use the bottom on pan to push against. very fast and if you just won't corn you lower the raker so it will not milk cob
Looks good
Thats great buddy , Im from Açores island ,são Miguel
I think you have to have to lay one end on the bottom of your pan and hold it , at an angle and rake it down..kind of like a mandolin type of thingy. so much enjoy your vlogs.
Thanks Clark!
My family here in Wisconsin just used the food saver to freeze 14 half gallon bags of corn on monday
Nice!! Quirky little machine though...I kinda wanted to throw mine by the end of it all!
you can use a regular kitchen fork. runnig the fork length ways. it works for me because i have dentures.
A blower nozzle and an air compressor works great for removing silks and is very quick
My parents live in rural area of the county. Where I grew up in the Webberville, Michigan area, it was the smallest town in the area.
The People who live on this 2 mile long stretch number about 20 homes with about 2.5 acres each the rest is farm land. Most is owned by one family. They plant so much corn tha the seed company gives them sweet corn seed to plant. It free to people of the community to get fresh corn the rest goes into silage.
My dad will use the Corn Silk and make hot Tea with it then pee like crazy. He said it is good to prevent kidney stones, and also helps prevent UTI's.
I hear it works!!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We used to smoke it
I saw an episode about cleaning corn. Supposedly if you cut the bottom off and slide the corn out the bottom you won’t have silk left on your cobs.
I've had decent luck with removing the most silk by cutting the base of the cob through the husk and peeling up from the base.
You guys are a AMEN
Used to do it about the same way but used a spoon to get all the cream out of the cob